From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 25 07:13:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA18403 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:13:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from wavefront.wavefront.com (daemon@ns.wavefront.com [204.73.244.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA18397 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ocean@wavefront.com) Received: by wavefront.wavefront.com (8.6.10/SMI-4.1.R931202) id JAA08266; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:11:22 -0600 Received: from UNKNOWN(204.73.244.214), claiming to be "wavefront.com" via SMTP by ns.wavefront.com, id smtpdAAAa08235; Tue Nov 25 15:11:13 1997 Message-ID: <347AEACC.21FB3F8C@wavefront.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:12:13 -0600 From: Michael Porter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo CC: Udo Wolter , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: Amancio's guspnp or Luigi's snd ? References: <199711251229.NAA04544@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey guys. I've seen a lot of letters about sound lately, and I haven't read most of them because if's hard to tell when a subject is relevent to its title or if it's just two or three people complaining to each other. I think it's time for a faq, or a handbook page. Maybe there is one, but I think it needs to be noted a lot if there is. It should explain what cards need what drivers, to what extent they are supported, and future support. No one is more qualified to write it than Luigi and/or Amancio. How about it guys? This would be a great service to us sound-newbies, and it would save you a lot of needless typing, I think. While skimming letters, people seem to have to re-iterate once a week (at least) Thanks! Michael Porter ocean@wavefront.com Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I never understood, where are the differences of the guspnp-driver (I think > > Amancio wrote it) and the snd-driver (Luigi wrote it). Can anyone explain > > [amancio can be more precise on this, but let's wait that he wakes > up -- we are located 9 hours apart on purpose so we can give 24h/day > support :) ] > > guspnp (which has replaced the "standard" drivers based on voxware > 3.0) is based on voxware 3.5 with lot of FreeBSD adaptation and > cleanups by Amancio and others (e.g. the AWE support was brought > in by Randall i think). In addition to the GUSPnP and the SB16, it > should also support many old, non-PnP cards. A nice feature of > guspnp is that it supports the synth device so you can play midi > files without eating CPU cycles. > > On the other hand, the "pcm" driver (the one in /sys/i386/isa/snd/) > is a complete rewrite of the audio driver, aiming to support newer > cards (mostly PnP and MSS/WSS clones) and with special attention > to multimedia applications. > > > which driver I should use for which soundcard ? > > the answer is the usual: the one which suits best your needs. > Of course we will be both grateful if you can try your hardware with > both drivers and report success/failure/useful configuration info, > or submit patches. > > Cheers > Luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________